West Point Conference on Language, Culture, and Military

The United States Military Academy’s Department of English and World Languages (DEWL) hosts the biennial West Point Conference on Language, Culture, and Military, with a focus on representations of military experiences in the humanities. This conference welcomes multiple and diverse approaches at the intersections of language, culture, and aspects of the human experience with a nexus to “military” (such as but not limited to militar, militaire, 軍 jūn, revolution, rebellion, guerrilla, etc.). From Xenophon to Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Penthesilea to Joan of Arc, Cervantes to Camões, Erich Maria Remarque to Václav Havel, we witness across all linguistic, literary, and cultural traditions the impact of what one may classify as military (or paramilitary) activities on the broader human experience. This conference foments insight from analyses of these experiences across all linguistic disciplines and cultural traditions, as language reflects, constructs, records, and negotiates key socio-cultural aspects, such as individual and collective identities, conceptualizations of reality, motivations, aesthetics, and historical narratives.

The Call for Proposals for the 2025 West Point Conference on Language, Culture, and Military is forthcoming. For questions about our conference, email WestPointCLCM2025@westpoint.edu.

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